Book Corner: What Are You Reading?

Here’s a space to tell the club what you’re currently reading. You’re welcome to use the comments below.

No pressure, of course! But if you’re feeling social, here’s a space to tell us about your latest classic. As always, you are of course welcome to leave a link to your blog if you prefer to share there.

I just finished listening to How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewelyn. I really enjoyed it! Right now I’m reading The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman on audio (highly recommend for book nerds like me!). I’m trying to figure out what to read next off my bookshelf. I’m thinking either We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen or a reread of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

I’m beginning my intensive Charles Dickens reading adventure (hoping to read (almost) everything by Dickens) by reading Pickwick Papers. What a great beginning, and I have great expectations for my Dickens project. Other book bloggers are invited to join me now and then at:http://informalinquiries.blogspot.com/

Just finished My Cousin Rachel. Currently reading Paradise Lost, and listening to the complete works of Sherlock Holmes, with awesome narrator Simon Prebble. I’m now in the collection: The Return of SH

I just downloaded the complete Sherlock Holmes narrated by Stephen Fry! All I’ve read of Holmes is The Hound of the Baskervilles, so I’m excited to read more. I also have been meaning to finish My Cousin Rachel. I started it ages ago so I’ll probably have to start again Hate when I do that!

I’m in the midst of several books at the moment: Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope (on audio); Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome (on my phone, whenever I have a moment); and two print books: a biography of Queen Victoria by Julia Baird; and finally, Marriages Are Made in Bond Street, a delightful nonfiction book about two young women who started a Marriage Bureau business just before WWII.

No classics at the moment. I’m reading a history of the Russian Revolution, and Colm Toibin’s new one, House of Names, which so far is excellent. And listening to Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves on audio for a little light relief!

A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes, at the moment, which is excellent but massive! But I’m doing a Russian Revolution cahllenge this year, so I’m reading loads of Russian stuff, bith factual and fiction – that’s the plan anyway…

The Toibin was very good, but not quite as excellent as I hoped it would be from the first section. I’m still mulling over it, but will probably review it next week or the week after.

Currently reading the Metamorphoses of Ovid, as well as My Disappointment in Russia by Emma Goldman. I also have the Vulgate edition of the Bible open, but I expect that will continue over the course of a couple years (I’m still at Genesis 35). Here is my list:https://vogliodio.wordpress.com/2017/04/22/classics-list/

I am enjoying it! It is longer than I expected, but because it divides into so many little stories, I find myself retelling them at each meal I sit down for. Some of them quite dreadful though (remember the one with the King of Thrace? And cutting that girl’s tongue out? Oi, wretched. But it keeps a listener’s attention). Happy reading!

No, I am reading through the Latin text. My version is a critical edition from a German publisher. It is not as difficult as I expected, but it will still take some time (for indeed, it always takes some time to get through the whole Bible).

After reading When Books Went to War, which is about the pocketbooks that were printed for soldiers during WWII, I hunted down a copy of Rosemary Taylor’s Chicken Every Sunday, which was one of the best-loved and most requested pocketbooks. It’s a bit dated, but great fun.

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